lam

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lam"

Translingual

Symbol

lam

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Lamba.

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /læm/
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.

Alternative forms

lamm

Verb

lam (third-person singular simple present lams, present participle lamming, simple past and past participle lammed)

(transitive, informal) To beat or thrash.
- 1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102,
  An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.
- 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter ,
  They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]
(intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
- 1947, Bill Finger, World's Finest Comics #30, "The Penny Plunderers!", p. 4:
  [Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, OCLC 43419454, part 1:
  […] and she was so mad and so down deep vindictive that she reported to the police some false trumped-up hysterical crazy charge, and Dean had to lam from Hoboken.

Noun

lam (plural lams)

(slang) flight, escape
on the lam

Derived terms

lambaste
lam into
lam out
on the lam
take it on the lam

Translations

To beat or thrash

Bulgarian: бия (bg) (bija), пердаша (bg) (perdaša)

Spanish: paliza (es) f, golpiza (es) f

Etymology 2

From Arabic لَام‎ (lām), the name of the letter ل‎ (l).

Noun

lam (plural lams)

The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل‎ (l). It is preceded by ك‎ (k) and followed by م‎ (m).

Anagrams

ALM, AML, M.L.A., MLA, Mal, Mal., alm, mal, mal-

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lam.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lam/
Audio (file)

Noun

lam (plural lammers)

lamb

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lami.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lam/, [lɑmˀ]

Adjective

lam

lame

Inflection

Inflection of lam
	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Common singular	lam	—	—²
Neuter singular	lamt	—	—²
Plural	lamme	—	—²
Definite attributive¹	lamme	—	—
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Derived terms

lam i roen

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lamb.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lam/, [lɑmˀ]

Noun

lam n (singular definite lammet, plural indefinite lam)

lamb

Inflection

Declension of lam

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
neuter gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lam	lammet	lam	lammene
genitive	lams	lammets	lams	lammenes

Derived terms

påskelam (“Passover lamb, Paschal Lamb”)

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɑm/
audio (file)
Hyphenation: lam
Rhymes: -ɑm

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lam, from Old Dutch *lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb.

Noun

lam n (plural lammeren, diminutive lammetje n)

lamb, the young of a sheep
(metonymically) The meat - or fleece/wool produce of a lamb; a dish prepared from lamb's meat
(figuratively) A gentle person, especially an innocent child

Derived terms

lammeren (verb)
lamsvlees n
lamswol

Descendants

Negerhollands: lam, lamtje
→ Papiamentu: lamchi, lammetsje

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch lam, from Old Dutch *lam, from Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

Adjective

lam (comparative lammer, superlative lamst)

lame, unable to move, paralyzed
(informal) very drunk

Inflection

Inflection of lam
uninflected	lam
inflected	lamme
comparative	lammer
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		lam	lammer	het lamst het lamste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	lamme	lammere	lamste
	n. sing.	lam	lammer	lamste
	plural	lamme	lammere	lamste
definite		lamme	lammere	lamste
partitive		lams	lammers	—

Derived terms

lamstraal m
lamme m
verlammen
vleugellam

Descendants

Negerhollands: lam
→ Caribbean Javanese: lam
→ Papiamentu: lam

Anagrams

mal

Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic لَام‎ (lām).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lám/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [láŋ]

Noun

lam f

lam (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

Kokborok

Noun

lam

way

References

Binoy Debbarma, Concise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary (2001)

Limilngan

Noun

lam

frilled-neck lizard

References

Mark Harvey, A Grammar of Limilngan: A Language of the Mary River Region, Northern Territory, Australia (2001)

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Noun

lam n

lamb

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

lamp

Descendants

Dutch: lam
Limburgish: lamb

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

Adjective

lam

lame
weak, strengthless

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

lāem

Descendants

Dutch: lam
Limburgish: laam

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lami.

Adjective

lam (neuter singular lamt, definite singular and plural lamme)

paralysed / paralyzed, crippled

Related terms

lamme (verb)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lamb.

Noun

lam n (definite singular lammet, indefinite plural lam, definite plural lamma or lammene)

a lamb (young sheep)

Derived terms

lammekjøtt
påskelam (“Passover lamb, Paschal Lamb”)

Verb

lam

imperative of lamme

References

“lam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lami.

Adjective

lam (neuter singular lamt, definite singular and plural lamme)

paralysed; crippled

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lamb.

Noun

lam n (definite singular lammet, indefinite plural lam, definite plural lamma)

a lamb (young sheep)
(by extension, Christianity, figurative) Christ as sacrificial lamb

Derived terms

lammekjøt, lammekjøtt
påskelam (“Passover lamb, Paschal Lamb”)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lam

imperative of lamma (to lamb)
imperative of lamma (to paralyze)

References

“lam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *laimą.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɑːm/

Noun

lām n

clay, loam

Declension

Declension of lam (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	lām	lām
accusative	lām	lām
genitive	lāmes	lāma
dative	lāme	lāmum

Descendants

English: loam

Old High German

Etymology

Common Proto-Germanic *lamaz, whence also Old English lama, Old Norse lami.

Adjective

lam

lame

Descendants

Middle High German: lam
- Alemannic German: lamm
- German: lahm
- Hunsrik: laam

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lam/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -am
Syllabification: lam

Noun

lam f

genitive plural of lama

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [lam]

Verb

lam

first-person singular/plural imperfect indicative of la

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish lamber, from Old Norse lami, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

Adjective

lam (comparative lamare, superlative lamast)

lame, unable to move any limbs
(slang) lame, inefficient, imperfect, almost ridiculously so
Det var ett lamt försök. Gör ditt bästa istället!
That was a lame attempt. Do your best instead!

Declension

Inflection of lam
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative²
Common singular	lam	lamare	lamast
Neuter singular	lamt	lamare	lamast
Plural	lama	lamare	lamast
Masculine plural³	lame	lamare	lamast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular¹	lame	lamare	lamaste
All	lama	lamare	lamaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Anagrams

LMA, alm, mal

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English lamp.

Noun

lam

lamp

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic لَام‎ (lām).

Noun

lam

Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ل

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laːm˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [laːm˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [laːm˧˧]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 藍, from Literary Chinese 藍, using the same disambiguation of 青 (“grue”) with 藍／蓝 (“blue”) and 綠／绿 (lục, “green”). See also xanh (“grue”).

Adjective

lam

(uncommon) blue
Synonym: xanh dương

Usage notes

The word is not used very often. The most common use of it is to refer to one of the seven colors of a rainbow, as in the listing "đỏ, cam, vàng, lục, lam, chàm, tím".

Derived terms

danh lam thắng cảnh (名藍勝景)
già lam (伽藍)
xanh lam

Noun

lam • (𥜓)

(architecture) louvers, blinds, shutters
Synonym: cửa chớp

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from German Arm and English arm.

Noun

lam (nominative plural lams)

arm
blade
sharp blade

Declension

declension of lam

	singular	plural
nominative	lam	lams
genitive	lama	lamas
dative	lame	lames
accusative	lami	lamis
vocative ¹	o lam!	o lams!
predicative ²	lamu	lamus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Welsh

Noun

lam

Soft mutation of llam.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
llam	lam	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Yámana

Noun

lam

sun

lam

Translingual

Symbol

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Verb

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

Further reading

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Danish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Adjective

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Inflection

Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Adjective

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

Anagrams

Hausa

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Kokborok

Noun

References

Limilngan

Noun

References

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

Noun

Inflection

Alternative forms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Adjective

Inflection

Alternative forms

Descendants

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

Related terms

Etymology 2

Noun

Derived terms

Verb

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Adjective

Etymology 2

Noun

Derived terms

Etymology 3